Ghɔmálá’, or ''Bamileke-Banjun (Bamiléké-Bandjoun)'', is a major

Bamileke language The Bamileke languages ( bai, Bamiléké) are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Bamileke people in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. The languages, which might constitute two branches of Eastern Grassfields, are: *We ...

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. It is spoken by an estimated 1.1 million people in two main population groups.

Phonology

Consonants

* The glottal stop /ʔ/ only occurs as word-final. * Sounds l ʃ ʒ ɣare alternative consonant sounds of /b͡v d t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ɡ/. * /t d/, when occurring before close front-central vowel sounds /i ʉ/, can sound palatalized as

ʲ dʲ In phonetics, palatalization (, also ) or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate. Consonants pronounced this way are said to be palatalized and are transcribed in the Internat ...

* Sounds /p b t d k/, when preceding a /h/ sound, are realized as affricated ͡ɸ b͡β t͡θ d͡ð k͡x * /ɡ/, when occurring before central vowel sounds /ə ɐ/, may sound affricated as �͡ɣ * A word-final /k/ sound, may be realized as uvular sounds χ

Vowels

* Sounds /ɐ u ɔ/ when occurring with a velar nasal /ŋ/, can be realized as nasalized vowel sounds �̃ ũ ɔ̃

Tone

Tones are marked as high � low � central (unmarked) rising � or falling �

References

Languages of Cameroon Bamileke languages {{gras-lang-stub